AJ is truly the WONDER DOG. There is only one and if you had any doubts, see what he just got finished reading. Trains and Classic Trains.

I shared these pictures on Trains Magazine Facebook page and the response was really nice. A few hundred likes and I am hoping AJ will get his picture in a future issue. If you have a moment, go to Trains FB page and like the page and AJ's picture.

The latest issue of Trains was just delivered yesterday and now the magazine is missing. I am pretty sure I know who has run off with it. How can I get upset with my dog who reads such fine magazines? PatriotUSA

"This article just seems to be based from a viewpoint that democrats exist to end the entire country, when in most cases we want to better it. Maybe not in your eyes, but in the eyes of what is correct in the history books of the future." - A high school Democrat.

"Marxists tell us that once the fight is won and true history has begun, the new problems that may arise will generate their own solutions, which can be peacefully realised by the united powers of harmonious, classless society. This seems to me a piece of metaphysical optimism for which there is no evidence in historical experience. In a society in which the same goals are universally accepted, problems can be only of means, all soluble by technological methods. That is a society in which the inner life of man, the moral and spiritual and aesthetic imagination, no longer speaks at all. Is it for this that men and women should be destroyed or societies enslaved? Utopias have their value – nothing so wonderfully expands the imaginative horizons of human potentialities – but as guides to conduct they can prove literally fatal. [...]

The possibility of a final solution – even if we forget the terrible sense that these words acquired in Hitler’s day – turns out to be an illusion ; and a very dangerous one. For if one really believes that such a solution is possible, then surely no cost would be too high to obtain it: to make mankind just and happy and creative and harmonious for ever – what could be too high a price to pay for that? To make such an omelette, there is surely no limit to the number of eggs that should be broken – that was the faith of Lenin, of Trotsky, of Mao, for all I know of Pol Pot. Since I know the only true path to the ultimate solution of the problem of society, I know which way to drive the human caravan; and since you are ignorant of what I know, you cannot be allowed to have liberty of choice even within the narrowest limits, if the goal is to be reached. You declare that a given policy will make you happier, or freer, or give you room to breathe; but I know that you are mistaken, I know what you need, what all men need; and if there is resistance based on ignorance or malevolence, then it must be broken and hundreds of thousands may have to perish to make millions happy for all time. What choice have we, who have the knowledge, but to be willing to sacrifice them all? Some armed prophets seek to save mankind, and some only their own race because of its superior attributes, but whichever the motive, the millions slaughtered in wars or revolutions – gas chambers, gulag, genocide, all the monstrosities for which our century will be remembered – are the price men must pay for the felicity of future generations . If your desire to save mankind is serious, you must harden your heart, and not reckon the cost.

"The answer to this was given more than a century ago by the Russian radical Alexander Herzen. In his essay From the Other Shore, which is in effect an obituary notice of the revolutions of 1848, he said that a new form of human sacrifice had arisen in his time – of living human beings on the altars of abstractions – nation, Church, party, class, progress, the forces of history – these have all been invoked in his day and in ours: if these demand the slaughter of living human beings, they must be satisfied. These are his words:

"If progress is the goal, for whom are we working? Who is this Moloch who, as the toilers approach him, instead of rewarding them, draws back; and as a consolation to the exhausted and doomed multitudes, shouting ‘morituri te salutant’, can only give the … mocking answer that after their death all will be beautiful on earth. Do you truly wish to condemn the human beings alive today to the sad role … of wretched galley-slaves who, up to their knees in mud, drag a barge … with … ‘progress in the future’ upon its flag? … a goal which is infinitely remote is no goal, only … a deception; a goal must be closer – at the very least the labourer’s wage, or pleasure in work performed."

"The one thing that we may be sure of is the reality of the sacrifice, the dying and the dead. But the ideal for the sake of which they die remains unrealised. The eggs are broken, and the habit of breaking them grows, but the omelette remains invisible. Sacrifices for short-term goals, coercion, if men’s plight is desperate enough and truly requires such measures, may be justified. But holocausts for the sake of distant goals, that is a cruel mockery of all that men hold dear, now and at all times."

"If it were possible for any nation to fathom another people's bitter experience through a book, how much easier its future fate would become and how many calamities and mistakes it could avoid. But it is very difficult. There always is this fallacious belief: "It would not be the same here; here such things are impossible." Alas, all the evil of the twentieth century is possible everywhere on earth." - Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, foreword to The Gulag Archipelago, Vintage Digital. Kindle Edition.

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A national day of mourning is being called for by the lame stream media.

No great show of how big a man you "think"
you are with 900 fawning fools in your entourage, a 45 vehicle parade,
three cargo planes, expenses for your hosts far exceeding anything they
can justify or appreciate - none of that can buy respect.

Knives in the backs of your allies are just that. You built
it Barack Hussein Obama - now you have to live with it. Unfortunately
so does America..

Well we can all see now just how scary the Russians found Obama and Kerry's threat of sanctions. They were a complete waste of time, because the Russians have done exactly what they wanted to do anyhow. This is important because it shows just how impotent Kerry and Obama are in the fact of the nuclear threat of Iran. Sanctions have about as much chance of working there - none.

The problem with a lot of these radical leftists is that they can't see a threat coming from people who hold a strong belief system, whether that person is an ex-KGB officer with dreams of Russian destiny or a mullah who thinks he needs to create worldwide chaos to usher in the mahdi.

The radical leftists keep on insisting that if only people were prosperous they would become all nice and cuddly, and would not try to kill Westerners or over-run countries, etc etc. Everything boils down to a materialistic worldview with the left.

They just don't understand that the religious beliefs of the Twelvers in Iran are far more important to them at the end of the day than being able to buy a pair of Levis or the latest iPhone down at their local shops.

This leftist blind spot is going to let people like Putin and the Iranians walk all over America - when they look at Obama they know that he doesn't believe in anything strongly enough to want to defend it. So they keep on doing whatever they want, because they know there is no way O will ever have the backbone to really try to stop them. As for that ridiculous buffoon John Kerry, he's nothing but a figure of fun to the whole world. I couldn't stop laughing at Mr. Heinz Beanz when he started crying live on TV about the Russians being so 19th Century ...

The consequences of Obama and Kerry's impotence could be immense. We've already seen Russia on the march, and we can expect the Iranians to keep doing whatever they want to do, because there is no real reason for them not to. Which means that Israel are going to have to take the necessary steps to end the Iranian nuclear threat.

And if they do that, you can be sure that the Iranian proxies in Lebanon and Gaza will launch a rocket war against Israeli civilians. Which will in turn ensure their doom, because the Israelis will end them too while they're at it.

All of which makes me think that O and Kerry are unwittingly laying the groundwork for a turn of events that will make a certain writer called Bill Salus a lot of money ...

Amnesty International hosted Ben White at a lecture Friday night, in what I assume was the UK. They also shielded White from critical questions from a Jewish member of the audience named Richard Millett. Algemeiner has the report and a video of Millett being refused his chance to ask a question (which White wouldn't have answered anyway).

In addition to my own comment in the Algemeiner reader thread, another reader from Venezuela made the comment that Amnesty International has been missing in action in his country under the Chavez-Maduro regime.

My apologies for being somewhat absent of late. Just life and it being complex and a few too many falls from my back, way too much pain but I am so blessed. I will just say that there are many have it much worse than I do and this is a NO sniveling zone. End of story. I am very thankful to the Lord for what I have in my life.

This is an outstanding commentary by Mike from Fellowship Of The Minds. Nothing that I can add to this will make it any more worthy and would probably take away or dilute what this post states. PatriotUSA

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Why Do Progressives and Democrats Hate America?

It’s a loaded question, I know. But please, bear with me for just a
moment and put aside all the rhetoric you’ve heard about political
correctness. I ask only that you approach the question from a position
of pure logic.

Progressives and Democrats want to change America. That’s no secret.
They boast about it openly, and base their political campaigns
entirely on the premise of change. I’m sure we agree so far.

Now consider this: Why does anyone want to change anything unless
they’re unhappy with it? If you’re happy with your job, would you
change? If you loved your dog, would you trade him in for a new model?
How about your spouse? Does anyone ever leave their spouse who isn’t
tremendously unhappy and no longer in love?

I’m sure we can also agree that change stems from disappointment and unhappiness.
Now back to America. Your children won’t hear it from their teachers
or read about it their school books, and you certainly won’t see it in
your newspaper or anywhere on television, but the United States of
America has done more good for more people than all the other countries
of the world put together.

America began as a haven for those seeking religious freedom and fought a war to preserve that freedom.

America fought a war to end slavery and won. (Democrats supported
slavery. Republicans opposed it. After the war, the defeated Democrats
formed the Ku Klux Klan. Funny how white Americans today are still
blamed for the slavery of a hundred and fifty years ago, yet never
thanked for sacrificing their lives in order to end slavery.)

America won two World Wars, and put an end to Hitler’s socialist Nazi party.
America stemmed the tide of communism and provided safety for
thousands of Vietnamese refugees who would have been murdered by the
communists of North Vietnam.

For centuries, America has given freedom and hope to the oppressed;
hope and joy to the suffering; and liberty and opportunity to people of
all races and nationalities. The proof of her greatness can be found
every day in the millions of immigrants who flock to her shores seeking
the freedom that America offers.

Yet Progressives and Democrats want to change America. Doesn’t that make you just a slight bit suspicious?

Indeed, Progressives and Democrats want not just to change America,
but to fundamentally transform it. And they seek to do so under an
ideology that has killed more people in the last one hundred years than
have died in all the wars in the history of the world combined:
Socialism.

Socialism under Hitler murdered millions and set the entire world at war.

Socialism under Stalin murdered upwards of forty million people.

Socialism under Mao murdered over sixty million people.

Socialism under Castro continues to murder people today.

Everywhere socialism goes, it kills.

Yet Socialism is what Progressives and Democrats want for America. Doesn’t THAT make you a tad bit suspicious?

Just what could cause so many people to despise a country so great as
America? Let’s examine the question a little more closely.

Have you ever seen a man get rejected by a beautiful woman? At
first, he criticizes her, looking for whatever flaws he can find, then
he despises her, and eventually he hates her. Why? Because he can’t
have her. His hatred is actually a form of self-hatred. He feels
unworthy of the woman who rejected him and projects his hate onto her
and others. His future attempts at seduction become a means of revenge,
a perverted attempt to escape his own self-loathing.

The same thing happens when a woman is rejected by a man. There’s a
reason why William Congrave wrote the famous words “nor hell a fury like
a woman scorned.” The scorned woman condemns and sets out to destroy
the man she cannot have. Like the rejected man, she suffers from
extreme self-hatred. It’s self-hatred that fuels feminism and its
constant attacks on heterosexual men. If we can’t have them, we’ll
destroy them.

Progressives and Democrats are no different in their hatred of America.

America was born a religious, God-loving country and it remains so
today. Progressives and Democrats, on the other hand, have rejected God
and embraced lives of sin. They support and encourage abortion,
racism, intolerance, promiscuity, homosexuality, government theft, and a
host of other ills, and then project the guilt and self-hatred they
feel for embracing these sins onto a hatred of America and its religious
heritage. Because Progressives and Democrats falsely believe that God
has rejected them, they reject God.

America has offered opportunity and economic freedom to anyone who is
willing to risk and work hard. Progressives and Democrats have risked
once or twice in their lives, failed, and are now terrified at the
prospect of competing with other risk-takers. Their fear leads to a
sense of entitlement that extends to food stamps, housing allowances,
“free” health care, and personal and corporate welfare. The stronger
their self-hatred, the stronger they feel they are above hard work.
They hate America, because it reminds them of their own failures to
provide for themselves and their families.

America stands for strength, independence, honor, and compassion.
Progressives and Democrats are so frightened by life and have developed
such a dependence on government for survival, that they have lost all of
these qualities. And they hate themselves for it.

No self-respecting man can call himself a man if he’s beholden to
government entitlements for his survival. Progressive and Democrat men
know this and they hate themselves for it.

No self-respecting woman can call herself a woman if she rejects the
honor and compassion of motherhood by embracing abortion and feminism.
Progressive and Democrat women know this and they hate themselves for
it.

Together, Progressive and Democrat men and women hate America,
because it reminds them of all the positive qualities of strength,
self-reliance, and kindness they lack the courage to develop in
themselves. Like rebellious children who must depend on their parents
for survival, but hate their parents because of it, Progressives and
Democrats live in a state of suspended adolescence, forever running from
the responsibility of motherhood, fatherhood, and limited government.

They hate America, because they hate themselves.

Which brings us to socialism.

Progressives and Democrats embrace socialism, because it represents
everything they long for: the complete eradication of the individual.
With all of society reduced to lowly pawns, they no longer have to fear
being reminded of their own inadequacies. Everyone can be as miserable
as they are. Everyone can feel the self-hatred they feel.

With no one to remind them of their sins, Progressives and Democrats
believe their guilt and intense self-hatred will finally be removed.
What they fail to realize is that the solution to all their ills lies
within them. By embracing America, they can embrace God. And by
embracing God, they can eliminate their guilt, their self-hatred, and
all the factors that contribute to their misery. It’s a solution so
simple and so easy that their own leaders are forced to spend billions
of dollars, and destroy millions of lives in order to hide it from them.

If you support Progressivism or the Democratic Party, then you also
support socialism. And if you support socialism, then, by definition,
you also support the socialism of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro, and many
others. Is that something you can live with? Are you ready and willing
to forgive yourself and return to the One who calls you?

He’s waiting. He’s been waiting. The first step is simply to say, “Please, God, forgive me…”

Russia has just gobbled up Crimea, Syria is in flames, and a Malaysian 777 has been missing for 12 days. Yes, it's a mad month, indeed. And our president is not missing a beat. He is talking on the telephone to Angela Merkel, sending Joe Biden to "reassure" our European allies, and, as is his annual wont, predicting who will win the NCAA tournament.

In the Hispanic community Hussein Obama is known as the Deporter-In-Chief but is working diligently to remove that moniker!

FromThe Hill - Obama to Hispanics: We won't deport relatives because you enroll in ObamaCare

President Obama on Tuesday sought to assure legal immigrants that they can sign up for ObamaCare without worrying that "the immigration people" will come for family members who are in the country illegally.

In an interview with Univision Deportes, a Spanish-language sports radio show, Obama said immigration officials won't have access to the personal information that consumers provide when signing up for healthcare on the new exchanges.

"Well, the main thing for people to know is that any information you get, you know, asked with respect to buying insurance, does not have anything to do with ... the rules governing immigration," Obama said. "And you know, you can qualify if you're a legal resident, if you are ... legally present in the United States.

"You know, if you have a family where some people are citizens or legally here, and others are not documented, the immigration people will never get that information."

Adolf Falcon, the senior vice president of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health, told The Hill that Hispanic families are wary of Obama's assurances because of his record on deportations.

"It is a big concern of mixed status families -- they hear [the president's] assurance, but because of the level of deportations that have happened, there's a lot of families that don't know whether they can trust that assurance," he said. "It creates an atmosphere of concern."

In Obama's first four years in office, his administration deported people at a faster rate than any of the four previous administrations. More here...BULLhonkey! -

From theWashington Times - Deportations come mostly from border, DHS chief saysHomeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson acknowledged Tuesday that his department's deportation numbers are now mostly made up of illegal immigrants caught at the border, not just those from the interior, which means they can't be compared one-to-one with deportations under President Bush or other prior administrations.

The administration has argued it is tougher on illegal immigration than previous presidents, and immigrant-rights groups have excoriated President Obama, calling him the "deporter-in-chief" for having kicked out nearly 2 million immigrants during his five-year tenure.

But Republican critics have argued those deportation numbers are artificially inflated because more than half of those being deported were new arrivals, caught at the border by the U.S. Border Patrol. Previous administrations primarily counted only those caught in the interior of the U.S. by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

And this little irking tidbit further down in the article not new info, just irritating as hell - The Senate last year passed a broad immigration bill legalizing most illegal immigrants, boosting border security spending by tens of billions of dollars and rewriting the legal immigration system. The whole thing here...In the meantime!

Obama orders review of US deportation practices - 3-13-14
Seeking to pacify frustrated immigration advocates, President Barack
Obama is directing the government to find more humane ways to handle
deportation for immigrants in the U.S. illegally, the White House said
Thursday.

And possibly the most fatal to our country - the Border Patrol is told to STAND DOWN!
Seriously! Is there something wrong with this picture? Not only is
Hussein Obama NOT the deporter-in-chief, he IS the
drug-importer-in-chief!

Just calling a spade a spade. Obama offers asylum to "minor" terrorists.
There can be no other explanation for why this man is working for the
IRS or any other government agency in America! There is no other
explanation why this man is even in America!

Well, there is one other explanation and that is - you and I are allowing it!

FromPumaBydesign001 - Obama's IRS Hires Al-Qaida SpyInvestors Business Daily - ...Mohammad Weiss Rassool, whom the FBI busted last decade for tipping off an al-Qaida terrorist suspect, reportedly now works for the deputy IRS chief financial officer as a financial management analyst, drawing a lucrative salary at taxpayer expense. According to investigative reporter Patrick Poole, who broke the explosive story in PJ Media, the Obama administration has let a Muslim man convicted of abusing sensitive government data have access to the sensitive financial data of millions of Americans at an agency known for abusing such information.

Astonishingly, the dangerous felon is still at the IRS, where he goes by the name 'Weiss Russell....' Read here..

"Obama Did Not Attend The Meeting", Or In A Moment Of Crisis The President Stands Resolute In The Sand Trap - March 1, 2014, the day Russia announced it would send armed forces in Crimea: President Barack Obama's national security team met on Saturday for an update on the situation in Ukraine and to discuss potential policy options, a senior Obama administration official said. The meeting came as Ukraine asked the United States and other key members of the U.N. Security Council to help safeguard its territorial integrity after Russia announced plans to send armed forces into the country's autonomous Crimea region. Obama did not attend the meeting, but he has been briefed about it by his national security adviser, Susan Rice, and his national security team, an official said.

March 15, 2014, the day Russia is said to have "invaded" East Ukraine, and the day before Crimea's critial referendum which may cement the second coming of the Cold War. President Barack Obama's national security team discussed the Ukraine crisis in a session at the White House on Saturday after Secretary of State John Kerry's return from talks with his Russian counterpart in London. Obama did not attend the meeting but was being briefed about it and other developments involving Ukraine, said Laura Lucas Magnuson, a spokeswoman for the White House National Security Council. More here.H/TI'41 - Not Yet News at AP or Politico: Russian State Broadcaster's 'Turn Into Radioactive Ash' Warning to U.S. - As
of 11 P.M. Eastern Time Sunday evening, searches at both the Associated
Press and at the Politico on "radioactive" returned nothing relating to
a comment made on TV by Russian "journalist" Dmitry Kiselyov reminding
viewers that his country, as translated by the wire service AFP, "is the
only one in the world "realistically capable of turning the United
States into radioactive ash." More here.At Director Blue- As Obama fine-tunes his NCAA brackets, Russian state television is showing mushroom clouds

I am sure many have been watching this story unfold. The ATF has now broken into Ares Amor. Ares Amor had received a Temporary Restraining Order against the ATF just last week. Apparently the ATF was incensed that Ares Amor would not only refuse to release their customer list but that they went to court to prevent the ATF from obtaining the customer list, protecting their customers and their business.

Note that the lower receivers are now being classified as weapons when they are actually NOT weapons. This is a complete hijacking of the law and legal protections granted by the TRO against the ATF.

Which business is next and no one should feel safe or 'protected' when this type of government agency overreach occurs. PatriotUSA

IMHO, in order to have a change between Wednesday when the original
TRO was granted, the ATF would have had to have alleged Ares was about
to get rid of records and that they, the ATF had emergent reasons for
going in now rather than waiting till the full hearing that was
scheduled for March 20.

-They materially misrepresent the lower receivers as “firearms”.
-they essentially argue “how dare Ares use the law to get a TRO against
us”, that somehow that was a “trick” on Ares part not to provide the
“firearms” as per agreement. But if they had the TRO, they were not
required to turn over the weapons.

Sharia and the Virtue of Hate

If you present inconvenient facts about Islam, you will be called bad names,
like hater. But it turns out that hate can be more virtuous than the silence
of "tolerance".

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On March 10, International Solidarity Movement co-founder Huwaida Araff spoke to an audience at San Diego State University. A description of her talk can be accessed here along with a video taken by myself.

As I previously described, Araff described the First and Second Intifadas launched against Israel as basically unarmed rock throwers facing off against armed soldiers with tanks and fighter planes. She only made passing reference to the suicide bombings that took place.

As Jews were gathered in the Park Hotel in Netanya to celebrate Passover, Abd al-Baset Odeh walked into the hotel dressed as a woman, found a crowded area and blew himself up. Thirty people were killed and 140 injured. It was the work of Hamas, whom Araff refers to as a "political faction". Here is how the scene was described by one of the Zaka units sent in to gather up the body parts.

"The sprinklers had burst, so there was water all over he floor, mixed with blood. In the central area, where the bomb went off, it was nearly up to our knees because there was a wall surrounding the dance floor. When we first went in, we saw fingers, hands, eyeballs, and smaller bits of flesh floating in the water like fish."- Preachers of Hate-Islam and the War on America, by Kenneth R Timmerman, Crown Forum 2003

Nor did Araff dwell on what has caused those conflicts between Israel and Gaza-namely the rocket attacks into southern Israel schoolyards launched by that well-known political faction Hamas. Just in the past couple of days, Hamas has sent more rockets into Israel. Oh, excuse me. Islamic Jihad has taken credit.

I could go on and on with more pictures of blown up buses and mangled corpses, but you get the idea. Ms Araff gave her audience of college students a one-sided account of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that all but ignored the horrific acts of terror carried out by Palestinians against innocent Israeli men, women and children acting on the orders of "political factions" like Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. It is all part of the dishonesty of the International Solidarity Movement, the same dishonesty that leads them to lure impressionable young Westerners to the region, indoctrinate them, train them, and put them in harm's way.

A man. Arthur Gomez Sr. 39. Husband. Father of six. High
school football coach. Church goer. Mentor. Loved and respected by
so, so many. He was alive Friday, and then in the blink of an eye he
was dead Friday.
His next-door neighbor, a previously deported felon, shot him repeatedly
at his home in front of his family after the two engaged in a "verbal
disagreement." Multiple firearms were taken from the home of the
murderer.

The new ROE came about after complaints of agents having
killed seven people a year for three years in a row along the border. I
cannot help but wonder how many other Arthur Gomez's died last Friday
at the hands of people who have no business being here. How many other
wives and children and communities are left shattered because of rules
set by fools. Nae, by evil.

And when in the quiet of a moment, when looking at this gateway to hell
do we Americans stop to consider that we are the actual fools? Fools
that we allow this kind of shoddy, pathetic governance here on our
homeland, and at the expense of how many?

"One summer night in 1956 in the coal-mining hamlet
of Iaeger, West Virginia, a stranger walked up to Willie Allen at the
drive-in. "Excuse me, sir," he said, "how would you and your date like
to watch the movie from my convertible?

"What's the catch?" Allen, then a 23-year-old Army corporal on leave from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, recalls asking.

"All they had to do, the stranger said, is sit in the car until the train passed. "I'll give you $10," he added.

"Allen and his date, Dorothy Christian, took the deal, and the
stranger took their picture. Thus O. Winston Link produced one of the
most elegiac railroad pictures in a series he had begun some months
before....

"He took almost all his train pictures at night, when he could engineer his scenes without the sun getting in his way.

"To do that, he had to devise his own flash system. Link would mark a
train's path with lanterns, and then map out where to set out flash
reflectors. Each reflector, which held up to 18 flashbulbs, was wired to
a portable supply of batteries and condensers. When the train hit the
right spot, Link pushed a button to fire the bulbs and, 35-thousandths
of a second later, released the camera shutter. The system wasn't
without its quirks—since the bulbs were wired much like Christmas
lights, a single broken wire or faulty bulb could knock out all the
others in the circuit." -- The Big Picture @ Smithsonian

Last night, International Solidarity Movement co-founder Huwaida Araff spoke at San Diego State University as part of a program hosted by the Charles W Hostler Institute on World Affairs. The moderator was Professor Jonathan Graubart of the above organization. The event was attended by above 70 people almost all students, many of whom were Graubart's students were attending as part of a class assignment. Also present was Adam Shapiro, Araff's husband and also co-founder of ISM. In his introduction, Graubart said, "it was regrettable that a few outside groups had made some ungenerous comments about the lecture series and myself". The event lasted about two hours.

In her presentation, Araff told of her birth and upbringing in America (Her parents were Palestinians from Israel), her education, and her travel to Jerusalem, where she was to remain for a year working for an organization called Seeds of Peace. She became a Palestinian activist working against Israeli "occupation" and stayed beyond the year after resigning from the above organization. She recounted the First Intifada (1991-93), the Second Intifada that began in 2000 when Ariel Sharon visited the Temple Mount, and the creation of the International Solidarity Movement. (I may have missed it, but in her presentation-in-chief, I don't recall hearing her actually refer to the ISM by name.)

She then went on to describe efforts to bring in "internationals" to participate in protests against roadblocks and checkpoints etc. She stated that it was their reasoning that Israeli soldiers would be reluctant to use force against people who did not look like Palestinians.

Needless to say, her talk was long on Israeli injustices and violence on Palestinians and short on any Palestinian transgressions over the years including hijackings, the Munich Olympic massacre, bus bombings, other suicide bombings, or rocket attacks from Gaza into Israel. The Intifadas, which she experienced, was basically characterized as resistance and rock-throwing against Israeli tanks and bullets. Rachel Corrie's death (2003) was also mentioned. (According to Araff's account, Corrie was trying to convince the bulldozer driver not to demolish a house and the driver ran over her). She also referred to Yasser Arafat as "Chairman Yasser Arafat" in obvious respect.

In the q and a, I got the first question (beginning of part 4) and asked her about her reported comment to a Duke University audience (2004) that the ISM cooperated with Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which are State Department-recognized terrorist organizations. I also asked her to comment on the reports that two British suicide bombers who attacked Mike's Bar in Tel Aviv in 2003 had stayed at an ISM facility prior to crossing over into Israel.

(Note: I am paraphrasing Araff's response. Refer to video for her exact words.)

In her response, she said that what she told the Duke audience was that while ISM's tactics were non-violent, she could not tell others not to employ armed resistance. She said that she considered attacks against unarmed civilians as illegal, but that there were rules of war that governed resistance to armed occupation. She said ISM would not reject someone joining them because they had connections to those organizations, but that she would explain that ISM rules dictated non-violent actions. She did not address my question about the above three organizations. As for the event at Mike's Bar, she said that when she received the news, she decided to call a press conference and inform the press that the two had been at an ISM facility. According to Araff, the two had shown up in Gaza and asked to visit. She said they came by the ISM house, had tea and left. According to Araff, the ISM had no idea of their intent to launch an attack. In a followup question, I asked her pointedly if ISM had any connections to Hamas. She replied in the negative ("No".) She explained that ISM preferred to be independent and not be a part of any "political factions" because if they were aligned with one group, another group might not want to work with them as a result. (Again I am paraphrasing.) Interestingly, she never said anything close to, "We would never associate with Hamas because they are terrorists or designated as a terrorist organization by the US State Department.") There was absolutely nothing critical said about Hamas. She referred to Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for Palestine merely as "political factions".

Below is the video in 5 parts. At one point, there is about a 20-second gap when I had to change the memory card in my video camera.

Set this issue aside - "Menendez is one of the
drafters of the June 2013 Senate immigration bill, which would boost the
inflow of legal immigrants and guest workers up to 40 million over the
next decade. During the same period, roughly 40 million Americans will
turn 18."

Set aside the issue - just "who" is coming thru our open borders?

The new ROE is based on - "The PERF report was
commissioned by top DHS leaders after advocates said law-enforcement
agents had killed roughly seven people a year along the 1,933-mile
border in 2010, 2011 and 2012. The shootings came during 67 clashes with
a huge stream of armed drug-smugglers and illegal immigrants."
I am suggesting that something even more sinister is being completely
overlooked in this rush to not get anybody hurt - good guys or bad guys!

A very few facts culled from - Drug War Facts - Drug Use Estimates#25 - (Initiation of Cocaine or Crack Use in the US, 2012) - In 2012, there were 639,000 persons aged 12 or older who had used cocaine for the first time within the past 12 months; this averages to approximately 1,800 initiates per day.

#27 - (Current Heroin Use in the US, 2012) The number and percentage of persons aged 12 or older who were current heroin users in 2012 (335,000 or 0.1 percent) were similar to those in 2011

#40 - (Prevalence of Illicit Drug Dependence or Abuse Among Full-Time Workers in the US) Approximately 3 million full-time workers (2.6 percent) aged 18 to 64 met the criteria for past year illicit drug dependence or abuse

#55 - (Global Distribution of Drug Use) Globally, drug use is not distributed evenly. In general, the US had among the highest levels of use of all drugs

Now back to the originally scheduled broadcasting - DHS demands that the border guards "play nice!" Subtitle - YOU are going to let those illegals and drugs into America or else!

H/TCitizens Militia of Mississippi - Posted on March 10, 2014 byror1774 at Reclaim Our Republic - DHS tells American border guards to run away from illegal immigrants hurling rocks at them, fleeing in vehiclesMar 8, 2014 by Neil Munro Top administration officials have directed 21,000 border patrol officers to retreat whenever illegal immigrants throw rocks at them, and to avoid getting in front of foreign drug-smugglers' vehicles as they head north with their drug cargoes.

"Agents shall not discharge firearms in response to thrown or hurled projectiles... agents should obtain a tactical advantage in these situations, such as seeking cover or distancing themselves," said the instructions, issued Mar. 7, under the signature of Michael Fisher, chief of U.S. Border Patrol.

Agents were also directed to keep their weapons holstered when drug smugglers drive by. Continue here.

Instructions, issued Mar. 7, 2014, by Michael Fisher, chief of U.S. Border Patrol can be viewed in full - HERE! His final statement to a very emasculated Border Patrol - "Something
that has resonated with me since becoming a BP agent 26 years ago is
remembering that an important part of our job in the course of securing
the homeland is to make it home every day at the end of each shift. Honor First!

Playing nice will result in the deaths of more Brian Terry's. More innocents. It degrades the security and freedoms (not even touched on here) of
families along the borders. It allows in huge numbers of illegals and
certainly some who would wish this country harm. They are called
terrorists. And - it is flooding America with drugs! None of those
issues are even considered in the new ROE, but hey - "Honor first!".

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Not r-s-p-e-c-t
as Hussein Obama’s botched spelling last week ironically showcased that
he can’t even get the word out of his mouth without half gagging for
lack of any understanding it. And not the illusional respect that others
attempt to subjugate us with in giving or taking it away. That is not
real.

What is real is that that we individually, and alone, when no
one else is looking, will take with us to those golden gates for entry.
It is that knowing in one’s soul that he/she is doing good, that what
they represent is valuable and important to themselves and others. That
their word, as in the oath taken to their duties, means something. In
this case, that promise of – I’ve got your back fellow citizens..

When we lose self-respect we rationalize and justify our
actions and words but we still know, and the dying that results is very
slow and very painful. I know this to be true.

According to an update by the author – this should be treated as a “possible” hoax until further verification.

[UPDATE: several commentors have noted they
cannot find any Connecticut Peace Officers Association online... nor can
I. I've emailed the person who emailed me on this, asking for info. His
indication had been that the article (which he attached) would be
online in a few days at http://ezinearticles.com/. Until he responds, or does not respond, I'd treat this as a possible hoax..

The answer to the question depends on who you ask. With
Hussein Obama as always, as ALWAYS - watch his actions, his words aren't
worth a plug nickle.Investors Business Daily - Obama's New Asylum Decree Favors Muslims Over Christians

Immigration: As President Obama offers asylum to "minor" terrorists providing "limited" material support to terrorism, he's slamming shut the door on thousands of Christians fleeing terrorism in Muslim lands like Egypt.

In another end-run around Congress, President Obama has unilaterally eased immigration requirements for foreigners linked to terrorism.

He ordered the State Department and Homeland Security to ignore a post-9/11 law barring entry to those giving political or charitable aid to Hamas and other known terrorist groups.

A dozen years after the horrific attacks on our nation by foreign Islamic terrorists, the Obama administration has decided a little support to foreign Islamic terrorists is OK. Continue here.

If he helped disarm the Ukrainians that is important
information for the world, and especially America, to know. We can
expect to see this story on every MSM outlet and every newspaper
headline in the country today, right?

Obama traveled to Ukraine with Sen. Dick Lugar in 2005 just seven months after he became a senator, touring surplus weapons stockpiles.

Most of the small arms and ammunition were left over when Soviets withdrew from Eastern bloc nations, and later dumped in Ukraine

The two senators secured U.S. funding to help destroy the weapons instead of leaving them intact

Ukraine exported more than 700,000 small arms in 2004-2007, including 101,000 each to Libya and the UK, and 260,000 to the U.S.

But most of the ammunition stockpiles – crucial for keeping a standing army battle-ready – were destroyed

Ukraine is in a staring match with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has designs on recapturing portions of the former Soviet nation. Read here.

Ukraine’s territorial integrity guaranteed under 1994 deal: Tymoshenko3-3-14Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko claimed on Monday that by “occupying” Crimea, Russia had not only declared war on Ukraine but also on Britain and the United States.

That is because on December 5, 1994, Ukraine, Russia along with Britain and the United States signed an agreement in which the three powers guaranteed the territorial integrity of the former Soviet republic in exchange for Kiev giving up nuclear weapons. Continue here.

. .

So much for integrity, territorial or otherwise.

“Uniforms change. The purpose of disarming a subjugated people remains the same. So does the outcome”

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